Kindling compound



Patented Aug 28, B23.

UNITED stares ARTIE L. RAVEN, OF SAN'JOSE; CALIFORNIA.

KINDLING COMPOUND.

No Drawing.

T 0 all whom it may concern Bt it known that I, An'rin L. RAVEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Jose, in the county of Santa Claraand State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Kindling Compounds, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a fire kindling proposition and has for its object tocombine certain inexpensive ingredients in such a Way as to form an improved kindler.

Prior compounds for kindling fires have required considerable trouble and expense in the proportion and mixing thereof and have not, as a general thing, been effective in small quantities.

In the present invention I employ ingredients which are inexpensive and which can be compounded Without special apparatus or treatment. The resultant product can be applied directly to the fuel, such as wood or coal, and has been found sufficiently effective so that a small quantity, say one or two tablespoonfuls, will kindle an ordinary coal fire. I

' The ingredients employed in the present compound are 'I' claim and desire to secure by Application filed January .4, 1922. Serial No. 526,920.

The burnt sienna and ashes are mixed together in equal proportions and thereafter the sawdust, amounting to about one-third of the total volume of the ashes and sienna, 35 is added. These are mixed together in the presence of coal oil and form a paste or putty-like substance. To one and one-half. gallons of this paste there is added one quart of coal. tar. ,v

The compound is applied directly to the fuel, and, when ignited, it burns slowly and generates sufficient heat to kindle any slow burning fuel, such as coal, one or two tablespoonfuls being suificient for kindling an or- 45 dinary fire.

Having thus described my invention, what Letters Patent is:

A kindling compound comprising the 50 following ingredients: burnt sienna 8 parts,

ashes 3 parts and sawdust2 parts united with sufficient coal oil and coal tar to form a paste or putty-like substance.

ARTIE L. RAVEN; 

